Hi all, after a bit of advice please...
I'm currently running an Abit NF7, 2500XP, 6800 and 1.5gb crappy DDR1 ram. Previously this was used mainly for gaming, but I've recently started doing a lot of photography and from September will be doing a photography masters so I'm going to be doing a lot of processing in Photoshop, and my current rig is pretty slow.
I'm also seriously broke, so I was thinking about buying the Asrock 4CoreDual motherboard, sticking a 4300 in it and using my old ram and graphics. However, due to using 3 512mb sticks and the board only having 2 DDR1 slots I'd have to drop down to 1GB total ram - how much is this going to be an issue with Photoshop?
Would it be worth going for a 2GB DDR2 kit off the bat? Whats the cheapest option that will allow me to overclock the C2D as far as the board will allow?
Cheers,
Tom
I'm currently running an Abit NF7, 2500XP, 6800 and 1.5gb crappy DDR1 ram. Previously this was used mainly for gaming, but I've recently started doing a lot of photography and from September will be doing a photography masters so I'm going to be doing a lot of processing in Photoshop, and my current rig is pretty slow.
I'm also seriously broke, so I was thinking about buying the Asrock 4CoreDual motherboard, sticking a 4300 in it and using my old ram and graphics. However, due to using 3 512mb sticks and the board only having 2 DDR1 slots I'd have to drop down to 1GB total ram - how much is this going to be an issue with Photoshop?
Would it be worth going for a 2GB DDR2 kit off the bat? Whats the cheapest option that will allow me to overclock the C2D as far as the board will allow?
Cheers,
Tom